(b) Performance management integrates the processes an agency uses to—

1. (1) Communicate and clarify organizational goals to employees;
2. (2) Identify individual and, where applicable, team accountability for accomplishing organizational goals;
3. (3) Identify and address developmental needs for individuals and, where applicable, teams;
4. (4) Assess and improve individual, team, and organizational performance;
5. (5) Use appropriate measures of performance as the basis for recognizing and rewarding accomplishments; and
6. (6) Use the results of performance appraisal as a basis for appropriate personnel actions.